Foreign first-release TOY sightings

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Surprisingly, the fourth wave of RID Tiny Titans have not been sighted at retail anywhere in the world, despite being at online stores for a couple months. They have now been found in German retail stores.

This series features

• Bulkhead (Prime)
• Clampdown (RID)
• Devastator (G1)
• Fracture (RID)
• Galvatron (G1)
• Grimlock (RID)
• Inferno (G1)
• Kickback (G1)
• Megatron (Aligned Continuity)
• Optimus Prime (RID)
• Roadbuster (G1)
• Sideswipe (RID)

And more new Rescue Bots toys have been found at American retail, including two playsets and two mini-transforming figures.

Griffin Rock Police Station w/ Chief Burns & Growl the K-9 bot (changes to a motorcycle)
Griffin Rock Garage w/ Kade Burns & Fireplug bot (changes to a water cannon)
Servo
Drake the Dragon-Bot

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The first RID Minicon 4-pack has been found at US retail, for US$17.

It contains "redecos" of Autobots Beastbox and Undertone, and Decepticons Swelter and Backtrack (each has been or will be released as singles or with a Deployer).
The Decepticons are noted as Blizzard Strike (blue), while the Autobots are noted as Scorch Strike (brown).


For anyone who was taking note of the official images for this 4-pack, Undertone is a slightly different colour to the official images - it was a pale tan colour, but is now a darker mid brown.

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The Gen2 Combiner Wars Superion boxset has been found in Canada at ToysRUs, so if it is coming here, it might be soon.

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The second wave of the 2016 Generations Voyager (Sky Lynx) and Deluxes (Hound, Smokescreen, Wheeljack, Trailbreaker) have been found in the Philippines.

And the new Rescue Bots "Elite" Optimus and High Tide have been found in America. They look to be the same size class as the Heatwave toy that was released early 2014, with Optimus being the cab from the trailer version, and High Tide being a proper transforming boat-to-bot toy to match the cartoon.

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Wave 2 of the RID Battlepacks (Bumblebee & Grimlock) have been found at American retail... plus both waves of the RID Titan Changers (apparently they didn't get the first wave when it was released in April 2015). Wave 1 had Optimus and Bumblebee, while Wave 2 has Sideswipe.

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The Combiner Wars Gen2 Superion boxset has been found at US retail (ToysRUs) for US$100... which is only a saving of $3 from the combined RRP value of those six Generations toys.
As such, if it shows up here, expect it to cost about the same as the combined Australian Retail price of the regular six Aerialbot toys (about $170-180).

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Looks like the Platinum Edition Planet of Junk Clash is already out in Canada as well (it was found in Asia about a week ago).... priced at C$110 (which is about AU$112, making them $40 Deluxes... but likely to show up here for AU$150, making them $50 per Deluxe).
Hasbro says it is ToysRUs pushing up the prices on these, and then they wonder why they struggle to sell.

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A little after us on this rare occasion, the first wave of RID Legions for 2016 (Thunderhoof, Clampdown, Drift, Windblade) and Deployers (Overload, Blizzard Drift) have been found at American retail stores.

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Also just found in American retail are the first wave of 2016 Generations Legends (Shockwave, Buzzsaw, Pipes, Chopshop), and the second wave of the Deluxes (Hound, Wheeljack, Smokescreen, Trailbreaker).

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RID Tiny Titans wave 4 is now out at American retail, some time after they showed up at American online stores (which already had wave 5 as well).

We missed wave 1 here, but Coles and Woolies seem to be stocking these a fair bit, as stores near me keep getting in new cases... so we might see wave 4 and 5 here soon too. (not that they are worth buying, at $5 each here)